were
were 英 [wə(r)] 美 [wə]
v. 是，在（are的过去式）
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- v. 是，在（are的过去式）
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1. They were all sleeping at that time.
他们那时都在睡觉。
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2. If I were you, I would have failed.
如果我是你，我可能会失败的。
- were (v.) Old English wæron (past plural indicative of wesan) and wære (second person singular past indicative); see was. The forms illustrate Verner's Law (named for Danish linguist Karl Verner, 1875), which predicts the "s" to "z" sound shift, and rhotacism, which changed "z" to "r." Wast (second person singular) was formed 1500s on analogy of be/beest, displacing were. An intermediate form, wert, was used in literature 17c.-18c., before were reclaimed the job.
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